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Lieberman, by virtue of his name recognition from the 2000 race, holds the slimmest of leads in the polls, but no one who is running has managed to crack even 20% among Democrats. The contenders' prospects depend largely on Bush's performance, a factor over which they have no control. So they are jostling to be in the best position should opportunity strike. It's a fast-forward process like none before it, one that operates on a new set of rules. Here are five...
Kerry's campaign is already running with military-style efficiency. When he noticed last summer that his ever present American-flag lapel pin had been lost in the jostle of a South Carolina crowd, the Senator's crack advance man Tom Keady produced a plastic bag full of spares. And Keady saw to it that the bib Kerry was issued for a recent charity ski race in New Hampshire carried the number...
...much of the world still needs convincing. If the Administration has lately sounded more charitable toward the inspectors, it may be because the U.S. is counting on one issue to crack Saddam: Security Council Resolution 1441's requirement that he make key weapons workers available for questioning by the inspectors privately, even abroad, where the workers can be free to divulge the deepest, darkest secrets about Iraq's banned programs. "While we don't know what's been done, we do know who is doing it," says a senior U.S. official. "We just need to ask these guys to account...
...This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers for Clockers. In preparation for that book, he dropped into the lives of people--narcs, druglords, ghetto mothers--who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced...
...ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Top 10 Celebrity Excuses. "Crack is cheap. I make too much money to use crack." Whitney Houston, on why crack is not among the drugs she has admitted using, snagged...